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Mon, Jul 18, 2011

UK Empire Test Pilots' School Continues Gripen Contract

Budding Test Pilots Learn In Two-Place Gripen Trainer

Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) has extended its co-operation agreement with Sweden and Saab, using the Gripen fighter aircraft to train its pilots. ETPS, Britain's world-class flight test training school, is operated by QinetiQ in partnership with the UK Ministry of Defence. Since 1999, ETPS has included Gripen as a core part of the ETPS Fixed Wing Graduate Course syllabus, and a new extended contract was signed this spring targeting two campaigns for this year.


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The first campaign was carried out in May and the second one will take place in August/September. The course consists of 11 students and 4 instructors amounting to a total of about 90 flight hours. During each campaign, students and instructors will receive simulator training and instructional flights in a dual seat Gripen. Each sortie will be used to teach specific techniques, demonstrate specific responses and characteristics and provide systems and assessment on the aircraft. There are also a number of target flights included in the campaign and the Swedish SK 60 jet trainer aircraft is used as a target for radar assessment.

"Gripen continues to provide ETPS with a world class 4th generation teaching platform in this very demanding area of flight test training - this activity marks another year of outstanding co-operation between Saab/SwAF and ETPS/QinetiQ," says Rhys Williams, test pilot Instructor, ETPS.

All flying is currently being conducted in Sweden at the Saab Flight Test facility in Linkoping and Gripen simulator at the SwAF base F 7 Satenas. The ETPS program is being managed in close co-operation with Saab and the Swedish Air Force and further strengthens the excellent relations that already exist between these highly skilled operators.

FMI: www.qinetiq.com

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